San Diego Comic-Con: New Mutants Retrospective

[DDM]

They should give him a run on the flagship now.

[Magik]

Here are a few highlights from artist Bill Sienkiewicz's panel on his work on "The New Mutants."

-fans hated his style
-was offered x-men, but turned it down. he thought "i'm not taking the flagship book & driving it into the ditch"
-he wanted zero attention, fly under the radar with his work
-claremont offered him a 3 issue arc & they just kept going
-warlock heavily inspired by animation. "jazz" and "zen."
-he added the soulsword, wanted illyana to be a "badass."
-legion was inspired by stories & comics in his grade school notebook.
-he left the book when marvel wanted "the new mutants" to look more
like the other x-books

The only relevant information here lol.

[useridgoeshere]

I'll admit it. I was a kid and I didn't like his style at all. It was "messy" and I liked order - "neat" artists like Byrne, Perez, Paul Smith.